A $900,000 jury award in an employment discrimination case, including $600,000 in punitive damages, has been reversed by a federal appeals court because a lawyer for the plaintiff during closing…
Updated: A reported gun incident Monday in an Iowa courtroom is prompting officials to reconsider an unusual policy that allows authorized individuals to bring firearms into the courthouse.
The Iowa Supreme Court has suspended an Iowa City lawyer for six months for faking discovery requests that he had forgotten to serve on opposing counsel.
A federal appeals court has affirmed a grant of summary judgment to the employer in a sex- and pregnancy-discrimination case, agreeing with the trial court that not having a lactation…
The Iowa Supreme Court will consider a proposal this summer that would allow graduates of Iowa’s two law schools to skip the bar exam if they practice law in the…
In an effort to provide more pro bono services to those who can’t afford a lawyer, Iowa Legal Aid and the Office of Professional Regulation have asked the state’s top…
An Iowa man is facing a misdemeanor drunken-driving case after a passenger in his car told Iowa City police he drove off the road Friday and hit a street sign…
An Iowa lawyer who believed his client was due to inherit $18.8 million from a long-lost Nigerian cousin has been suspended for tapping clients for loans in a failed effort…
The University of Iowa College of Law has announced that it is cutting tuition by 16.4 percent for students pursuing a juris doctor degree beginning in the fall of 2014.
A woman who accused an Iowa lawyer of sexual misconduct while he was representing her and her husband has a limited right to legal representation at a legal ethics hearing…
A former law student has gotten a green light from an Iowa appeals court to proceed with her suit against Drake University over the law school’s alleged hostility toward the…
An Iowa lawyer is facing felony charges after allegedly obtaining nearly $178,000 in improper payments, between 2007 and 2011, for his work as a contract attorney for the state public…
In the latest chapter of a litigation saga that has proven expensive for the feds, Jenner & Block has won what could be a record $4.7 million in attorney fees…